Call for Submissions to Best Horror of the Year Volume Two

[ellen_datlow]

Although I'm still reading for Volume One, it's already time to start reading for Volume Two, so:

Call for Submissions

I am editing the new anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the second volume, which will include all material published in 2009.

I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark thrillers, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2009. Submission deadline for stories is December 15th 2009. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. If a magazine, anthology, or collection you’re in or you edit is coming out by December 31st, you can send me galleys or manuscripts so that I can judge the stories in time. No email submissions. I strongly suggest that authors check with their publishers that they are sending review copies to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.

There will be a summation of "the year in horror" in the front of the volume. This will include novels, nonfiction, art books, and "odds and ends"-- material that doesn't fit elsewhere but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for this section is January 15th, 2010.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Two
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I do not want to receive manuscripts from authors of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive (like Interzone, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Subterranean, Postscripts, Weird Tales, F&SF, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don't have or can’t get that anthology or collection. Please contact your publisher and ask him/her to send me the magazine or book.

Please do not send a SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. If you want to confirm that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived. For stories that appear on the web, please send me (or have the publisher send me) print-outs of your story.
thanks

Comments

[mondyboy.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, I've been meaning to send you Issue 1 of Midnight Echo (the Horror Mag for the Australian Horror Writers Association), but it's a PDF publication. Although I know the above is regarding Book 2, can I assume that the same rule applies for Book 1 and that PDF publications should be printed out and sent to the snail mail address?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I've already received and read issue 1 of Midnight Echo. But it would have been wayyyy too late to send it to me now, in any case.

[mondyboy.livejournal.com]

Ah. Silly me. Well... um... I'll go walk over there now ;-)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

That's right. Stand in the corner :-)

Don't feel too badly, when I posted the letter to various news places I initially put that I was reading for the First volume, which pushed one eagle eye reader receiver of said letter to ask if I wasn't doing one for 08--So I had to re-send ALL the letters again. (and I have this very bad feeling I didn't fix it throughou the letter). The above notice however, is finally correct.

I need a proofreader!!!!

[lilifae.livejournal.com]

Hi Fab Editor Ellen

I've "pimped" the submissions request over at my blog - I also know an editor at Bloomsbury UK who writes a mean horror story, so I'll let him know too.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I also know an editor at Bloomsbury UK who writes a mean horror story

Really? Who dat?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I also know an editor at Bloomsbury UK who writes a mean horror story

Yes, who?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully he'll send me anything he's having published in 2009.

[apexdigest.livejournal.com]

Ellen, would you prefer that I mail stories to you on a monthly basis (since we're a monthly ezine now) or just in one big bundle like I did in 2008?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer getting them monthly, if you don't mind.
thanks

[fishku09.livejournal.com]

thx!!!
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[jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com]

Is Permuted Press on your list of publishers you receive anthologies from? I'm thinking of their 2009 zombie anthology, The World is Dead.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I received one item from them for 2008: (unless I haven't logged in other things yet)--The Headshot Quartet. I've just checked out their website and it's so badly designed that I cannot tell when anything came out/ is coming out.
You might consider reminding them to get me a copy of the antho when it's out.
Thanks

[jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com]

Will do. Thank you.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I realize this is a million and a half years too late, but...are you checking The Harrow now? Because I have something in there--"Sown From Salt", 2008--and could send it to you. Also: Are you in contact with Bill Breedlove and the folks at Dark Arts? I have two things in their 2009 anthology.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hi Gemma
I requested printouts from the Harrow and they never responded, so no. Please snail mail it to me. Thanks.

I've been getting anthologies from Darkarts so hope they'll be sending me their anthos for 2009 too.

Btw, I'm going to try to go over "Marya Nox" one more time today and give you whatever edits/queries I've got--I'm handing the whole ms in as soon as possible after I return from London Feb. 4th.